Ciążąca (nie)obecność. Gombrowicz wobec wojny i Żydów
The Burden of (Not) Being There: Gombrowicz’s Position towards the War and Jews

Summary/Abstract: In her careful new reading of Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia Dauksza traces elements that indicate the essential role of passages concerning the war, its impact and consequences. Her affective analysis reveals Gombrowicz’s singular obsession with the war, with the lack of agency and with (anti)testimony. A particularly important problem is the presence/absence of Jews in the novel’s fictional reality. Dauksza explores Gombrowicz’s relationships to Jews and points out how important that relationship is within his work. She also engages with his diagnoses and comments on postwar Polish society and with his remedies for the spectral status of that formation.

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